15 Dec
2011
15 Dec
'11
11 a.m.
I'm dusting off my Quadra 950 and thought it might be good to try and
upgrade it a bit if I can.
I have a fairly slow TrueColour graphics card installed at the moment, so
I'm looking for a better quality/faster NuBus card.
I'd also like to put in a PowerPC upgrade if I can find one. I used to have
one of these years ago, and it used to work pretty well. The Quadra has
a PDS type slot.
Anyway - anything considered. I'm in the UK - but shipping this weight of
item from overseas wouldnt be too much I think.
Contact me off list if you have anything.
Thanks Ian. :)
15 Dec
15 Dec
11:21 a.m.
I'm dusting off my Quadra 950 and thought it might
be good to try and
upgrade it a bit if I can.
I have a fairly slow TrueColour graphics card installed at the moment, so
I'm looking for a better quality/faster NuBus card.
I'd also like to put in a PowerPC upgrade if I can find one. I used to have
one of these years ago, and it used to work pretty well. The Quadra has
a PDS type slot.
For the video card, I'd look into a Thunder-class or PrecisionColor-class
NuBus card. I personally love the 8*24*GC, but acceleration doesn't work on
an '040 and performance is pretty pedestrian without the accelerator. I
have used the PrecisionColor Pro 24XK and while accelerated performance is
still a bit slower than the GC, it can be accelerated on an '040 and is still
a zippy card. People also swear by the Thunder GT.
Still, motherboard video on the Q950 is pretty fast and reasonably good
unless you need 24-bit colour.
The PPC card is where the wheels fall off. I've never been particularly
impressed with the available 601 cards, and they are a very expensive
value-for-money proposition. You can still run 8.1 on the Quadra without a
PPC upgrade, unless you want the PPC card just for yuks.
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16 Dec
16 Dec
8:42 a.m.
On 2011-12-15 17:00, silvercreekvalley wrote:
I'd also like to put in a PowerPC upgrade if I can
find one. I used to have
one of these years ago, and it used to work pretty well. The Quadra has
a PDS type slot.
That slot will take a SCSI accellerator card, which will essentially
transforn your 950 into a WGS95.
Please don't disgrace this beautiful 68K machine with PPC upgrades. It
is pretty much begging for an A/UX install.
.tsooJ
17 Dec
17 Dec
9:34 a.m.
On 16 December 2011 13:42, Joost van de Griek <gyorpb at gmail.com> wrote:
On 2011-12-15 17:00, silvercreekvalley wrote:
What Joost said, pretty much!
That's one of the last and among the most powerful 68K Macs ever. Why
turn it into an underpowered, poorly-performing PowerPC machine?
It would be a lovely machine to run MacOS 8.1 on - and having that
dual-booting with A/UX would also be very cool indeed. With relatively
easy-to-find and inexpensive 4MB SIMMs, you could fit it with 64MB
RAM, which is plenty for OS8 and would get you up and running with
A/UX.
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I'd also like to put in a PowerPC upgrade if
I can find one. I used to
have
one of these years ago, and it used to work pretty well. The Quadra has
a PDS type slot.
That slot will take a SCSI accellerator card, which will essentially
transforn your 950 into a WGS95.
Please don't disgrace this beautiful 68K machine with PPC upgrades. It is
pretty much begging for an A/UX install. 
10:11 a.m.
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From: "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: Looking for powerpc and decent graphics card for Apple Quadra
950
On 16 December 2011 13:42, Joost van de Griek
<gyorpb at gmail.com> wrote:
The 950 is one of my favorite Macs, I have 5 of them (one original mint
WGS95, 4 normal 950's). Nothing runs A/UX as well as a WGS95 with the full
512Kb cache installed on the PDS SCSI card (for a server anyway). There are
68K upgrades for the 950's I have one clocked at 50Mhz with cache:
https://picasaweb.google.com/107784270771159898725/MiscComputerGear#5067911…
The 601 PPC upgrade cards are not that bad, I use one in a 950 because it is
an AVID video editing setup and requires it (you need more then 3 Nubus
slots for all the cards involved). There is a cool PDS SCSI card for the 950
:
https://picasaweb.google.com/107784270771159898725/NubusCards#5687111181166…
and of course the coolest PDS upgrade the Daystar 601-80 with 4 x 72 pin
SIMMs and 1MB cache the 68K side can also use. So if you max out the 950
with 256MB of 16MB 30 pin SIMMs and get the Daystar card with another 128MB
of RAM you have a 68K Mac that can use 384MB of RAM! You can boot with or
without the accelerator running by using the Daystar control panel so you
don't really ruin anything unless you need that Nubus/PDS slot for something
else.
Mostly I like the 950's because of all the cool upgrade cards I can stick in
them. It used to be you couldn't give those models away but one recently
sold for $200 + expensive shipping so somebody must have wised up about
their collectability.
On 2011-12-15 17:00, silvercreekvalley wrote:
What Joost said, pretty much!
That's one of the last and among the most powerful 68K Macs ever. Why
turn it into an underpowered, poorly-performing PowerPC machine?
It would be a lovely machine to run MacOS 8.1 on - and having that
dual-booting with A/UX would also be very cool indeed. With relatively
easy-to-find and inexpensive 4MB SIMMs, you could fit it with 64MB
RAM, which is plenty for OS8 and would get you up and running with
A/UX.
I'd also like to put in a PowerPC upgrade if
I can find one. I used to
have
one of these years ago, and it used to work pretty well. The Quadra has
a PDS type slot.
That slot will take a SCSI accellerator card, which will essentially
transforn your 950 into a WGS95.
Please don't disgrace this beautiful 68K machine with PPC upgrades. It is
pretty much begging for an A/UX install.
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